Levi Bellfield taken in
2001 at 33yrs old, show a bleached colouring of hair and eyebrows. His true hair colour is
dark brown. Note his build and height at 6' 1". Josie
Russell stated that the murderer was "tall, like my
father". Josie Russell next to her father

Bellfield on holiday.

The witnesses who helped compile the E-fit described
the main suspect as having "podgy cheeks".
He was also "clean shaven" with a "short straight fringe". Bellfield liked to comb his
hair forward into a short fringe.

Bellfield with cap: The
sun-tanned 'blonde' look in earlier years.

Josie Russell used her
thumb and finger to draw up her hair when describing the attacker's hair style as "kind of spikey".

Conflicting descriptions of one or more
suspects was given by various witnesses which implicate either a fair or dark haired man
driving a beige Ford Escort-style car. Josie Russell's description of the suspect having "yellow" hair was given
some months after the crime while recovering from terrible head injuries.

Mrs Isobel Colegave a significant description of a suspect. She stated that at around 4.30 pm (the time of the murder) she drove slowly past a man as he walked down a footpath near Chillenden with a
claw hammer hanging from his hand. The vicinity is in a quiet rural area with few strangers, let alone
strangers carrying hammers.

"He was in his late 20s or
early 30s with a very pale complexion and dark brown eyes", clean shaven, medium
build, dark trousers, wore a baseball cap and had wispy dark brown hair".

Bellfield with wispy dark brown hair.

Nicola Burchell, a pottery worker, had
been returning home from work when she was forced to slow down behind a beige Escort-type
car which had apparently pulled out from the entrance to Cherry Garden Lane. Looking into
the car, Ms Burchell saw a clean-shaven man in his thirties with "podgy
cheeks" and wearing a red T-shirt - information which was later used to
draw up an e-fit image of the suspect.

Anthony Rayfield

said it was shortly after 5pm around half an hour
after the crime had occurred that he saw a jittery white man a mile away near a
cluster of houses called Rowling Court, 35 to 40 yrs old, 5ft 4  5ft 6
tall, slim with balding, short, light-coloured hair.

The man was next to
a stationary car with its hatch open. He walked to the top of the bank to look across thefield
towards Chillenden and he also looked around in all directions. As he approached, the man
jogged down the road and stopped near a tree. The suspect hid a white string bag
containing bloodied towel strips in bushes and returned to his car, a beige-coloured family saloon that may have
been a Ford Escort.

Trevor Jackson

had
been in the area with a friend looking for scrap metal at between 5.10pm and 5.40pm on the
day of the murders. As they neared Rowling Court - where Mr Rayfield had found the
bloodied strips of towel in a string bag - they came across a parked car.

'It was a small
car like a light-coloured Ford Escort and there was a bloke stood up on the top of the
bank behind one of the doors which was ajar and he was looking across the field."

Travelling towards
Nonington they saw another man near Cherry Garden Lane, the scene of the attack.

"He was wearing blue jeans
with a grey jogging top with a hood which was up. He was white and was carrying something
in his left hand. I could not see what he was carrying, except that it was not a bag. He
was walking fast."

It is not known from
this account whether the two people were related.